Document containing a list of the subjects destined for mining in New Spain and the Kingdom of Santa Fe, including their families and servants
Document containing a list of the subjects destined for mining in New Spain and the Kingdom of Santa Fe, including their families and servants
Expansion from the town of San Luis Potosí to regulate agricultural, livestock and mining production in the late 17th and early 18th centuries
Portrait of a Mestizo Family by Miguel Cabrera (1763), which shows the socio-cultural diversity present in the Viceroyalty of New Spain during the 18th century.
New Spain fleet leaving Veracruz for Cadiz.
Image of a five-panelled folding screen depicting the Palace of the Viceroys in Mexico before it burned down in the turmoil of 1692.
A work by Miguel Cabrera, dated 1763, depicting a mestizo family group in the Viceroyalty of New Spain
A picture of caste in America representing the new visions of society in the Hispanic Monarchy
The image shows the layout of one of the twelve reverberatory furnaces for quicksilver metallurgy that were built in the Calle de Santa Ana of the Real de minas de Azogue de Nuestra Señora de la Concepción in New Spain. These furnaces were made on the outside of brick and lime, to resist water, and on the inside of brick and clay, to preserve the fire. The picture explains how they worked.
Resource showing expenditure on the Havana garrison as a result of the Empire’s internal and external wars
Resource showing the last indications of smallpox in New Spain through the parish of San Pablo Apetatitlan. America, like other continents, was also affected by this epidemic